AS Spyridon The Great

[AS]_Spyridon_The_Great is one of the current AS Clan Leaders for RoN, along with his close friend  [AS]_Serman. He has been with AS since 2010. He plays 3N games and scenarios (many of which have been designed by himself as he has been the most active RoN scenarios publisher of the 2010's).Spyridon started playing RoN Single Player (SP) mode back in 2003 when the original game had first come out. In 2004 he also continued playing RoN TaP which quickly became his all-times-favourite game. He also learned RoN programming and created his first SP scenarios which were published in Rise of Nations heaven games website in 2007. His SP scenarios gained popularity and achieved thousands of downloads.

However it wasn't until December 2009 when Spyridon_The_Great played his first Multiplayer (MP) game of RoN. Since that time he has played several RoN games, even though at times there were some gap periods during which he was playing other games and/or was busy with life-matters. One example is the "dead-RoN" period between the GameSpy and Steam era (2012-2014) in which there were effectively no RoN-organised ways to play the game.

Since the beginning of his MP experience, Spyridon_The_Great was attracted to Nomads games, but being a total beginner at that time, he was not allowed to join 3N games. However, Spyridon_The_Great understood that he would only become a good player if he would have the opportunity to gain experience playing with decent players (even if he would lose in his first games) instead of having easy victories vs noobs. Therefore he tried his best to participate and join 3N games by infiltrating in before being discovered that he was a new player. Eventually he gained decent skills and he would be allowed to play 3N. One of the most defining moments was when he defeated THE_GREEK.

Approximately one year after he started playing MP (and as his skills had improved), he joined the [AS] clan as [AS]_Spyridon_The_Great; he was recruited by [AS]_Itachi on the 25th of December 2010. In January 2011 he represented the [AS] in the clanwar with the rival [AOF] Clan ; [AOF] was defeated and the victorious [AS] posted the video on Youtube. As the years passed Spyridon became an active poster in the forums of the [AS] website. He mainly played 3n games but he also participated in scenarios and eventually started creating his first MP scenarios.

On the 26th of July 2014 he bought the steam version of the game (RoN EE) and so he played RoN again with his old and then new friends. He improved his 3N skills and created even more scenarios using the new Steam Workshop function of the RoN EE. Scenario-wise, he used his accumulated experience and ended up being the most active scenarios-publisher of the 2010's.

[AS]_Spyridon_The_Great's primary focus has been to enjoy 3N games and be a team-player. However, by late 2016, most [AS] members were not playing RoN anymore as they had either stopped playing RoN in order to play other games or they hadn't come back after the GameSpy era. Along with his close friend [AS]_Serman he took in command of the AS clan for RoN in the summer of 2017.

On the 10th of September 2017, [AS] was reborn with the creation of the [AS] steam group for RoN and then the new reforms of [AS]_Spyridon_The_Great came into effect. [AS] was then joined by both old AS members and non-AS friends as well as by other people who were happy to become new AS members. By the beginning of 2018, AS achieved high levels of competitiveness: it became one of the largest and most active clans of RoN with more than 20 members, a new [AS] YouTube Channel, recorded victories against other RoN clans, a new coaching & feedback system, a strong presence in the RoN community and a seemingly bright future ahead.